Home detention bail granted to driver accused of causing car crash that killed girl near Stockwell

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October 19, 2016 5:23pm

A MAN charged with causing the death of an eight-year-old girl in a car crash at Stockwell, north of Adelaide, has been released on home detention bail.

Refugee Shujaat Bahrami, 40, who escaped Afghanistan by boat for a better life in Australia, is accused of causing the crash by driving on the wrong side of Duck Pond Rd immediately before impact on October 2.

He is also charged with causing serious harm to his partner Gul Bekht Rajab Ali, 28, who is the mother of the deceased, and two family friends who were all passengers in the orange Hyundai SUV he was driving.

Bahrami appeared by video link in Elizabeth Magistrates Court on Wednesday where Magistrate David McLeod granted bail on the conditions outlined in a home detention report.

He also ordered that Bahrami arrange for his travel documents, currently at his Dandenong home, be surrendered to police in Melbourne or Adelaide by 5pm next Monday.